Best Buy has some of the best prices on laptops right now, and I just found an even better deal there. This time, the company that sells electronics has put a powerful gaming laptop on sale for a price that is shockingly low.
Best Buy is currently offering a price cut on the HP Omen 16.1″ laptop, which brings the price down to $999. This is a big discount of $550 compared to its usual list price of $1,549. but you have to move fast because this is a special offer that will end in less than 24 hours (1 a.m. ET on Friday, Feb. 24, to be exact).
Even though it doesn’t perform quite as well as the Razer Blade 15 and the Asus ROG Zephyrus M16, the HP Omen 16 is still a strong contender for the title of one of the best gaming laptops money can buy. It was made to be a rival to these two models. First of all, I really like how simple it is. I’m really interested in it. Even though a lot of gaming PCs have a geometric design with RGB lighting, I like a style that is a little less flashy and loud.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that the best thing about a gaming laptop is what’s on the inside, and the HP Omen 16 is no different in this regard. The graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, and the processor is an AMD Ryzen 7 6800H. Mica silver is used to make the chassis, which gives it a sleek look. There is also a solid-state drive (SSD) with 512 GB of storage and 16 GB of RAM, which is plenty for high-end gaming. If you have one of the best external hard drives, you won’t have to worry about this problem, even though the built-in SSD isn’t as big as the installation sizes of many new games, which are huge.
This HP laptop also has a 16.1-inch Full High-Definition (FHD) display with a refresh rate of 144 hertz for smooth gameplay all the time. It also has technologies called AMD SmartShift and AMD Smart Access Memory, which try to make the most of the laptop’s resources so that it works better when you need it to. Even when you play games that put a lot of stress on your computer’s graphics, HP’s unique Omen Tempest Cooling will keep your computer from getting too hot.
In terms of ports, you can find the standard range of USB connectors here. This laptop has three USB-A ports and two USB-C ports, as well as an HDMI 2.1 port. You can connect the laptop to a larger screen or a monitor made for gaming through these ports. As a standard feature, it also comes with a full-sized keyboard that has four different RGB lighting zones and Windows 11 already installed. The list of specs as a whole is pretty good, except for the 720p webcam. I would have been more interested in seeing the presentation in 1080p.
If you want a laptop with even more power, you can get this Acer Nitro 5 with Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti for $600 less on Amazon. The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, which is currently our pick for the best gaming laptop that money can buy, is still on sale at Best Buy for $1,099, which is $550 less than the original price.